Word: colemans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...workmen in 1818; Lammot du Pont, father of the brothers Pierre, Lammot and Irénée, was mortally injured in 1884 while trying to "quench" some fuming nitroglycerin to avert a disaster. *Christiana, which still holds 27% of Du Pont stock, paid $200 a share for Coleman du Pont's stock. Each share of Du Pont common has since risen to a market value (counting splits) of $11,779 and has paid a total of $5,958.91 in dividends...
...middle of Boston Harbor is an island piled high with garbage and rubbish. Spectacle Island has long been the dump for central Boston, at great cost to everyone. In 1951 the Coleman Disposal Company will charge $530,000 to truck rubbish to two Atlantic Avenue piers, load it onto scows, and tow it out to the island. Because no new company wants to invest the large sums necessary for scows and other equipment on the mere chance of getting a contract, the Coleman Company has a virtual monopoly. It has held its job for the last 30 years...
...appropriated to plan an incinerator, and an engineer engaged to do it. But when the design was submitted, the Public Works Commissioner rejected it on two relatively minor points. Nothing has happened since, and all but $5,000 of the appropriation is gone. Meanwhile, the Coleman Company has raised its price...
Hyland opened bidding in the middle of November, and there were two or more bidders for all but three contracts. Because of this, the city will save $141,000 over last year's costs. In negotiations with the Coleman Company, Hyland also saved another...
...incident no less dramatic actually happened in Wilmington in 1902. In that instance it was headstrong young Alfred Iréneé du Pont who proposed to buy the company, and Cousins Thomas Coleman, the promoter, and Pierre Samuel, the financial brain-still, at 80, a member of Du Pont's finance committee-who joined him to build the business and to expand it into the fields of peace. Shortly before World War I, E. I. du Pont de Nemours, like Baron, was found in violation of the antitrust laws and split into three separate companies. The parallels...